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Is It Bad Law To Believe A Politician? Campaign Speech And Discriminatory Intent, Shawn E. Fields
Is It Bad Law To Believe A Politician? Campaign Speech And Discriminatory Intent, Shawn E. Fields
University of Richmond Law Review
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Race And The Law, Cassandra Conover
Race And The Law, Cassandra Conover
University of Richmond Law Review
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Federalism, Individual Rights And Judicial Engagement, Kurt T. Lash
Federalism, Individual Rights And Judicial Engagement, Kurt T. Lash
Law Faculty Publications
Contemporary “rights talk” under the American Constitution tends to focus on individual rights or those rights that can be perfected in the case of a single individual. This would include, for example, the rights to free expression, free exercise of religion, sexual autonomy, or the right to equal treatment. Under the broad umbrella of individual-rights talk, theoretical discussions generally involve whether courts ought to recognize a particular individual right or what level of scrutiny (or engagement) ought to apply to judicially identified individual rights.
From the beginning of our history as a nation, however, the concept of legally cognizable rights …